Migrating a project from java 8 to java 9

Now that Java 9 is out, I decided to migrate to it my pet project, which is around 120K lines of java.

The first step is to just start compiling and running against jdk9, without using any of its features yet.

This is an account of the surprisingly few issues that I encountered during this first step and how I resolved them.

Issue #1: Object.finalize() has been deprecated.

A Hacker's Tale (With a Human Side)

Screenshot of Borland Turbo Debugger found on the interwebz, possibly the same version that I was using back then.

This is a hacking story from my University years. It ends with a nice bit about human qualities. 

Grumpy Posts

Besides the delicate grumpiness which is gratuitously scattered throughout this blog like the golden rays of light in a gentle sunset, there exist a few blog posts which have been written with the express purpose of venting out some major grumpiness.

Here is a list of them:

On UML (oh, do not get me started)

The Wild, Wild Web

On JUnit's random order of test method execution

On UUIDs and GUIDs

On scripting languages

Why Oracle sucks

The GWX (Get Windows 10) KB3035583 trojan horse

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(The list will be extended as more posts are added.)

Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy

"Simple Made Easy" presentation by Rich Hickey from the InfoQ Software Development Conference, recorded at Strangeloop 2011

Watch the presentation here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy 

(the slideshow plays alongside with the video.)

My notes on the presentation:

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Simple vs. Complex, Easy vs. Hard